You're not alone if you haven't even begun to get your financial documents ready for tax season. Even though the deadline is a little over a week away, there is still time to abide by the rules and maybe get some vacation, home improvement, shopping...or saving money back in the process.

There are apps for everything else, why not use them to help you make your time with the "tax-man" smoother?

I'm almost positive that people procrastinate on getting their taxes done, because they have the sneaking suspicion that they may owe taxes to the government - Why rush to pay?

TaxCaster acts as a tax calculator that gives users a quick estimate of their federal tax refund before thy file. The app uses the same functionalities as the popular TurboTax software to give you a good idea of what your bank account will look like after you file.

The people who don't procrastinate because they may owe, wait too long because they can't find all their receipts, W2's, 1099's...and whatever else IRS forms with names that don't make any sense.

Shoeboxed is a handy site and mobile app that lets users snap, scan, or mail in their paper receipts that are converted to digitized reports that you can send to your tax professional or upload to popular accounting software to get the ball rolling. No longer do you have to kill any more trees than neccessary.

The trifecta of tax-time procrastination is taking time out of your busy day to schedule time to sit with your tax professional to go through the whole process. With today's technology, you can now sit at a coffee house on your smartphone and start a teleconference with your tax-man to send over financial documents you have stored in the cloud.

If you're weary about sending all that personal, financial information over the web, Hotspot Shield acts is your every on Virtual Private Network (VPN) for your smartphone that sits between you and network lurkers sniffing around Wi-Fi hotspot signals looking for juicy data to...use your imagination.

Mobile apps if used right, can make the most confusing, frustrating, and costly time of the year a little less so...just a little.

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